WebAssembly without the browser

Re:WebAssembly without the browser by nicetryguy on Sunday August 16, 2020 @09:27PM (#24182933)

If you are going to target WebAssembly outside of a browser environment, uh, why not just target LLVM, GNU, or uh, you know, Assembly... X86_64 or ARM are pretty standardized. Another part 1/1 "tutorial" with some brilliant insight as per usual.

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Re:WebAssembly without the browser by geofft on Sunday August 16, 2020 @11:13PM (#24183502)

There seems to be a section in the article called "Why would we want to run WebAssembly outside of a browser?" that I think addresses what you're asking?

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Re:WebAssembly without the browser by Skinney on Monday August 17, 2020 @03:11AM (#24184757)

LLVM bitcode is, I believe, not portable. Neither is Assembly. Nor are the resulting binaries of that processed something that is run within a sandbox.

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Re:WebAssembly without the browser by aerismio on Monday August 17, 2020 @07:33AM (#24186214)

This, i think webassembly is the sweet spot. It has portability but doesn't have any opinion about how the code should be structured. No opinion about GC or objects etc.

Works really really great with Rust.

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Re:WebAssembly without the browser by juntao on Monday August 17, 2020 @04:42AM (#24185290)

Yes. Because WebAssembly provides a higher level of abstraction (safety, isolation, portability, manageability etc — you know, the “enterprise” stuff) over native code. See here: https://www.secondstate.io/articles/why-webassembly-server/

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Re:WebAssembly without the browser by Jyaif on Sunday August 16, 2020 @09:47PM (#24183066)

Because WebAssembly allows you to sandbox the code, which you can't with regular assembly.

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Re:WebAssembly without the browser by otabdeveloper4 on Monday August 17, 2020 @08:47AM (#24186702)

Sure you can. The so-called "virtual machines" have existed for a while now. :)

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